The Day the Music Died...

Today I went to rip some of my CD's. Yes I still have CD's, I am that old, actually, older. I still have LP's.

The problem was Media Player kept failing whenever I started the rip process. The CD would play fine so I knew it was not a bad CD. I got an error when ripping started. It was saying it couldn't open a file. What file? I had no idea.

I checked Rip Settings - More options and the Rip music to this location was empty. Hmm, that didn't seem right. Click the Change... button and nothing happened. Click it again. Still nothing. Click it a few hundred times more and still nothing. Click around the options screen and everything else seemed to be fine. Click apply and it says it can't save the options. What?

Time for a quick trip to the internets. I did some digging and went down a rabbit home that had me looking for nodes in Regedit. That is not where I wanted to be and it seemed like there should be an easier way, besides, I wasn't finding the key they had me looking for anyway.

Turns out that Media Player - File - Manage Library - Music was pointing to locations that did not exist. I believe Windows copied that setting from another PC when I first setup my PC. It was pointing to my Surface Pro directory and the Surface Pro was turned off. No wonder it wouldn't work.

I changed it to point to the One Drive, Music folder. Now all my PC's, my phone and my Xbox can play the same music with Groove.

Yay! The music is back.

I'm not a huge fan of Groove. I hate the constant nagging to subscribe. If you know of a good app, that works on Android, Windows 10 and Xbox, let me know. I'd love to switch. In the mean time I will go with the path of least resistance.

Here is a link to the article that finally pointed me in the right direction: Microsoft Answers It is about Window 7 but applies to Window 10 as well.

The Day the Music Died...

Today I went to rip some of my CD's. Yes I still have CD's, I am that old, actually, older. I still have LP's.

The problem was Media Player kept failing whenever I started the rip process. The CD would play fine so I knew it was not a bad CD. I got an error when ripping started. It was saying it couldn't open a file. What file? I had no idea.

I checked Rip Settings - More options and the Rip music to this location was empty. Hmm, that didn't seem right. Click the Change... button and nothing happened. Click it again. Still nothing. Click it a few hundred times more and still nothing. Click around the options screen and everything else seemed to be fine. Click apply and it says it can't save the options. What?

Time for a quick trip to the internets. I did some digging and went down a rabbit home that had me looking for nodes in Regedit. That is not where I wanted to be and it seemed like there should be an easier way, besides, I wasn't finding the key they had me looking for anyway.

Turns out that Media Player - File - Manage Library - Music was pointing to locations that did not exist. I believe Windows copied that setting from another PC when I first setup my PC. It was pointing to my Surface Pro directory and the Surface Pro was turned off. No wonder it wouldn't work.

I changed it to point to the One Drive, Music folder. Now all my PC's, my phone and my Xbox can play the same music with Groove.

Yay! The music is back.

I'm not a huge fan of Groove. I hate the constant nagging to subscribe. If you know of a good app, that works on Android, Windows 10 and Xbox, let me know. I'd love to switch. In the mean time I will go with the path of least resistance.

Here is a link to the article that finally pointed me in the right direction: Microsoft Answers It is about Window 7 but applies to Window 10 as well.